How to Verify Your Website Ownership with Google

Navneet Singh How-To Guides, Webmasters

As privacy is important to Google, they need to know who own a site before they’ll show your website information in Google’s search results.

Also, Verification doesn’t affect your site’s performance in Google’s search results.

Step by Step Process to Verify Ownership of your site in Google Webmaster Tools

1) Sign in to Google Webmaster Tools with your Gmail account

2) Enter the main URL of your website and click on “Add a Site”

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3) Then you see a list of “Alternate Methods”, select the radio button option that you want to choose.

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4) Following are the steps on choosing the “HTML file Upload” option

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5) Following are the steps on choosing the “HTML Tag” option

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6) If you select first option of “HTML file upload”, then upload google verification code file (that you’ve downloaded at step 4) to your website root folder in “www” or “public_html”, and follow the other steps related to the option selected.

7) If you select “HTML tag” as your option, then you just need to copy the meta tag generated into your web site’s homepage. It should go in the <head> section, before the first<body> section.

8) Go back to the Webmaster Tools page of “Alternate Mehods” that you saw in step 3.

9) Click “Verify”

10) Congratulations, you have successfully verified your web site ownership.

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Verifying ownership of your site in Google Webmaster Tools – Video

 

 

 

 

 

About Navneet Singh

Navneet Singh is a young enthusiast who Loves Internet Marketing and is always eager to share useful and authentic content on SEO, link building, social media marketing, content marketing, and conversion rate optimization to help others. A Software Engineer By Chance and Working as a CEO in SEO Experts Company India, one of the Top Rated SEO Agencies in India. A Basket Ball Player and a Budding Entrepreneur.

Navneet Singh

Navneet Singh is a young enthusiast who Loves Internet Marketing and is always eager to share useful and authentic content on SEO, link building, social media marketing, content marketing, and conversion rate optimization to help others. A Software Engineer By Chance and Working as a CEO in SEO Experts Company India, one of the Top Rated SEO Agencies in India. A Basket Ball Player and a Budding Entrepreneur.